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    Installed Vista on E1505: Awesome!

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by lilfazzl, Jan 29, 2007.

  1. lilfazzl

    lilfazzl Notebook Consultant

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    Just installed my copy of vista ultimate on my E1505 and its great. No problems so far except for one and its fast and responsive too.

    My one issue is that my mouse does not scroll anymore ( the scroll pad line on the right of the touch pad). Is this a driver issue? Thanks
     
    lilfazzl, Jan 29, 2007
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    That would be a driver issue yes, keep an eye out for new drivers from whoever made that mouse.
     
    Andrew Baxter, Jan 29, 2007
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    I believe you need the Touchpad software for that (and other touchpad special) function to work. Download the Synaptics Touchpad software for Vista from support.dell.com.
     
    lancorp, Jan 29, 2007
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    Wait wtf, i dont think i have aero. ****.
     
    lilfazzl, Jan 29, 2007
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    The first one :(
    I have the x1300 card so that should work, i think my ram is too low tho, its 512 and minimum for aero is 1 gb.
     
    lilfazzl, Jan 29, 2007
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    I see like the difference, but that's about it. I don't know much about Vista right now. What is the difference/ Is one like complete Aero or something and the other is like mix of XP with Aero? I read somewhere that that's an option and users can also choose classic?
     
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    What's Aero?
     
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    You're really going to need to upgrade your RAM. Otherwise it seems like kind of a waste to have spent all that money on Vista Ultimate.
     
    zadillo, Jan 29, 2007
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    its wierd. its working perfect so far, no lag or freezing at all. but no aero which doesnt really matter. im going to upgrade ram anyways though. Now all my documents are on my xp partition and i cant get access to them unless i use xp :((
     
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    Im surprised it worked on your system, but congrats on getting it to work. Are you sure its Vista Ultimate, or is that why you need to upgrade ram.

    Anyways for the dude above "The Man" Aero is a skin that Vista uses, like how Silver is a different skin to the blue one you get default with XP.

    I just use Windows Blinds on my e1505, pretty much vista...looking at least.
     
    Vince__00, Jan 29, 2007
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    Just to clarify, the "skin" of Aero is just one aspect of it. Aero basically includes all of the various special effects, etc. that it is capable of; things like the Flip3d interface, and the stuff that shows a live "screenshot" when you hover over a task in the taskbar are powered by Aero as well.
     
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    so far it works flawlessly, and its way faster than xp ever was on my system. and yes, its vista ultimate.
     
    lilfazzl, Jan 29, 2007
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    when i installed vista ultimate on my 6400 with 512 rams "2x256" every time i boot the BSOD appears and the system restarts and no Aero for sure and my performance score was "2.9" now when i upgraded to 1 giga "512 x 2 " it is working very good and fast with 3.1 score and Aero ON :D
    the only issue now is my wireless im getting bad signal from my router but when i try with windows xp i get a full signal i dunno why :(
     
    elhamy201, Jan 30, 2007
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